€15m boost for Cork’s Victorian Quarter

Up to €15 million is to be invested by a range of businesses in the next few years in Cork’s ‘Victorian Quarter’, anchored by the rejuvenated MacCurtain Street, where up to a dozen new businesses have arrived in the past two years.

The signicant sums will include major hotel investments, an upgrade at the centrepiece Metropole, and a new adjoining hotel by the same owners alongside on the PJ O’Hea/Patrick’s Quay site, which will total 280 beds between them.

And, next month, a striking new wine/cocktail and tapas bar, called Cask, will open by the entrance to Isaacs Hotel and Greenes Restaurant compex, also currently undergoing significant investments. Set in a former antique shop, Lynes and Lynes, Cask is set to open in mid-February. The fit-out, with salvaged Victorian era bar joinery, is almost complete.